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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022-5338-01 Moderate Ruby Buffer Overrun

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial update for python:3.8 has been released on CentOS, resolving a significant security vulnerability.
An update for the ruby:2.6 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: ruby (2.6.10). (BZ#2089374)
Security Fix(es):
* Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion (CVE-2022-28739)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat buffer overrun security fix moderate severity ruby

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28739 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: ruby-2.6.10-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.src.rpm rubygem-abrt-0.3.0-4.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.src.rpm rubygem-bson-4.5.0-1.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.src.rpm rubygem-mongo-2.8.0-1.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.src.rpm rubygem-mysql2-0.5.2-1.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.src.rpm rubygem-pg-1.1.4-1.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.src.rpm
aarch64: ruby-2.6.10-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm ruby-debuginfo-2.6.10-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm ruby-debugsource-2.6.10-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm ruby-devel-2.6.10-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-2.6.10-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm ruby-libs-debuginfo-2.6.10-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-1.4.1-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo-1.4.1-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-4.5.0-1.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debuginfo-4.5.0-1.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.aarch64.rpm rubygem-bson-debugsource-4.5.0-1.module+el8.1.0+3653+beb38eb0.aarch64.rpm rubygem-io-console-0.4.7-109.module+el8.6.0+15475+c55337b4.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:5338-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5338
Issue date: 2022-06-28

Topic

An update for the ruby:2.6 module is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory red hat buffer overrun security fix moderate severity ruby

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2075687 - CVE-2022-28739 Ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion

2089374 - ruby:2.6/ruby: Rebase to the latest Ruby 2.6 point release [rhel-8] [rhel-8.6.0.z]

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